Manager, Global Entity Management

About the role

Datadog employs roughly 8,100 people across 35 countries through global subsidiaries, all under a Nevada parent. Some are operating companies. Others came to us through acquisitions. We open in new markets often enough that the structure is always moving, and we manage it in Diligent Entities. This role owns it.

The work is entity formation and maintenance in many jurisdictions, corporate records and statutory filings, and daily coordination with the Finance, Tax and People teams. You will deal directly with government agencies, registries, registered agents and local counsel around the world. You will also be the person the rest of the company asks whenever a question touches our corporate structure.

The role sits in Legal Operations, and you will report to our Senior Director, Legal Operations, who has supported entity management operations in the past. Our Associate General Counsel, Corporate & Securities owns the work product and sets the standards for entity management and for our securities filings. Legal Operations runs the function; Corporate & Securities owns the substance.

The placement also gives you breadth. Legal Operations covers legal technology and systems, process design, outside counsel and spend operations, restricted party and sanctions screening, product legal support, and the department's AI work. We expect to cross-train you across those areas over time, and to cross-train colleagues into entity work. Entity management will remain the substantial majority of this job.

On AI in particular, Legal Operations is where most of that work happens for the legal department. We look at how our current tools could be used better, we assess new ones, and we look for ways to extend AI into systems that were never built with it in mind. If you look at a manual process and wonder whether software should be doing it, there is room here for that.

On the securities side of the role

You will also handle Section 16 filings (Forms 3, 4 and 5), Forms 144 and Rule 10b5-1 plan administration, supervised by our Associate General Counsel, Corporate & Securities, who trains the team on it. Prior public company reporting experience is welcome but not required. We have trained people into this work before and it went well. What we need is someone who wants to learn it and who will hold the deadlines once trained.

Global entity management: the core of the role

• Entity lifecycle. Manage formations, foreign qualifications, branch registrations, conversions, mergers, dissolutions, liquidations and deregistrations for our US and international entities, working with outside service providers and local counsel in each jurisdiction.
• Good standing. Keep every entity in good standing wherever it operates. That covers annual reports and returns, statutory filings and business licenses. It also covers records for registered agents and agents for service of process, and the local compliance requirements that differ by country.
• Government agencies and registries. Deal directly with company registries, tax authorities, chambers of commerce and other government bodies on filings, registrations, certificates and inquiries, some of which need regular follow-up.
• Compliance calendar. Own the global entity compliance calendar. Know what is due, where and when, and flag it early rather than relying on a service provider's reminder.
• Directors, officers and authority. Track director and officer appointments and resignations, maintain signature and delegation of authority records, and prepare powers of attorney, incumbency certificates and secretary's certificates. Keep internal systems current and make sure the people who need to know about a change in signing authority are told.
• Portfolio rationalization. Review the legacy and dormant entities we hold, including those that came in through acquisitions. Form a view on which should be maintained, consolidated or wound down, then carry out the plan.

Nice to have

• Exposure to Section 16, Forms 144, Rule 10b5-1 administration or public company reporting.
• Implementing or migrating an entity management system, or materially improving the data quality of an existing one.
• Rationalizing a legacy entity portfolio by consolidating or winding down dormant companies, including entities acquired through M&A.
• Evaluating, piloting or rolling out legal technology or AI tools.
• Supporting restricted party or sanctions screening.
• Work at a multinational technology or SaaS company, or supporting one from a firm or service provider.
• A notary public commission in New York, or willingness to obtain one.
• Certification from NALA, the National Association of Legal Assistants (Certified Paralegal or Advanced Certified Paralegal), or from NFPA, the National Federation of Paralegal Associations (CORE Registered Paralegal or PACE Registered Paralegal).

If you are strong on the entity management core and lighter on some of the rest of the two lists above, we would still like to hear from you. We are hiring for depth in the part of this role that is hardest to teach.

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